Today, amid debates over the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to wild animals and deforestation, his landmark essay suggests another potential iteration as the origin of the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus is sought. It has been widely hypothesized that the virus is zoonotic, originating in bats and passing through another animal, possibly a pangolin or a dog, before jumping to humans in a market in Wuhan, China. At CIFOR, our work on viruses and forests examines conditions that make such transmissions possible.
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Restoration
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Plantations and tree crop commodities
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Enhanced nutrition and food security
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Biodiversity, safeguarding and conservation
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Nationally determined contributions
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Bioenergy and biomaterials
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Blue carbon and peatlands
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Climate change adaptation
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Landscape governance
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Gender
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Silvopastoral systems
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Market-based agroforestry-forestry
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Farm-forest policy interface
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Agroecology
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Livelihood trajectory modelling and assessment
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Inclusive finance and business models
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Innovating finance for sustainable landscapes
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Public and private commitments to zero deforestation
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Orphan tree crops
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Effectiveness of approaches to sustainable supply
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Quality of FTA research for development
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Sentinel landscapes
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Foresight
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Seeds and seedlings delivery systems
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Smallholder tree-crop commodities
